to come back with minorities after saying such ugly comments. appreciate both of you being with us. sticking around for double duty. take care. all the best. it s being called the ultimate rematch. team usa squaring off against japan in tonight s women s world cup final. now, the u.s. has a chance to avenge their 2011 loss. how s it going in new york? i m doing well. in just a few hours, i ll be doing even better when fans join me at this bar and at bars all around the country cheering on the women in red, white, and blue hoping to end this july 4th weekend with a big world cup
vecsey. the author of eight world cups my journey through the beauty and dark side of soccer. george, there s not a lot of people that know as much as you do about what we re about to watch this evening. what do you look for? what am i looking for? i know that americans are looking for a redemption of sorts. this is a generational team. abby wambach and others have been here for a while. they want to win a championship before their time is totally over. and that s not necessarily the right way to do it. you ve got to go in positive playing forward, playing this game. i think this team has gelled at just the right time. so it is now a different team than the one that went in there with all of the talk of the past. now they re moving forward and playing well. you have watched that little line chart and it s little because it s been low in terms of interest across the united states. if we get the win tonight or if we don t get the win tonight, were you you think we re going to get
but also remembering 1999 16 years ago the last time the women took it home. there was an explosion of support after that game. and the women s team now knows that that can happen yet again. i have the chance to sit down with a few of the mothers of those star players on this team and they say that their girls, they re women have that on their mind. they know that if they can win that they ve worked their whole lives for this. but if they can be part of a shift, an explosion in the sport in the states and, of course among the millions of those watching are those in the sport and they re so excited. they hope the whole team and whole tunry are behind them. we re behind all of those talented women on team usa. at least i am. i m going to show my bias here. i think there are a the love folks around that will probably support what is going to be happening shortly as they ramp up with energy. jacob, thank you so much. let s bring in new york times sports reporter george
mirror in my lichlt i always look forward. you know try to be about tomorrow. and so it s not about what happened before for me. it s the opportunity to have this amazing group of women that potentially win a world championship. joining me now from vancouver, canada is jacob rascon. jacob, how has the interest been? we ve been with you over the last six hours. and you ve been standing right there. the crowd seems to be getting larger and larger behind me. what are they telling you? what they re doing is they re not starting to sell the jerseys, the shirts. they re just opening up. so you have dozens and dozens of fans who are going to get their jerseys. a lot of them have their faces painted. they are ready for redemption. if the u.s. team can win, not only would ut redeem themselves if four years ago, but they ll become the first u.s. women s team the first team environmenter in the women s sport to win three world cups. that will be gigantic. and they re fueled by memories of t
a tragic discovery in louisville to tell you about. this boat capsized on the ohio river and founder in bridge construction downtown. we were able to retrieve six people if the water. two of which have succumbed to their injuries. nine people were on the boat when it capsized. two were killed. three people missing. along the chicago shoreline, a boat full of people went up in flames. the coast guard got to the scene there yesterday and found three of the 16 passengers on the water. all of them were rescued without injury. let s talk about weather, too, in new york city. it s looking nice and clear. reynolds? to our view areas cross america, it is a busy day weather-wise. we have a chance of scattered showers and storms.